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folksy

[fohk-see] / ˈfoʊk si /


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Enter Ted Lasso, Jason Sudeikis’ folksy Missourian loaded with cornpone wisdom, positivity and kindness.

From Salon Aug. 7, 2026

There’s kind of a folksy quality in the manufactured banter between a president and the ballplayers.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

He has since reinvented himself as a man of the people, melding a relaxed, folksy style with slick social media videos.

From Barron's Jul. 20, 2026

The new take to the meeting was a departure from Buffett and Munger’s more casual and folksy approach.

From The Wall Street Journal May 4, 2026

Among the most popular collections of the type that Liszt’s example engendered were Johannes Brahms’s Hungarian Dances of 1869 and 1880, which exploit all the usual folksy dance forms of lassan, friska and csardas.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Fortunately, Nelson’s crew had folksier wisdom to dispense.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2020

For many Koreans, there is a collective shame about the folksier elements of their own culture.

From The Guardian May 8, 2017

Or, if you prefer a folksier approach: “Time is a tricky old sow, ain’t she?”

From New York Times Mar. 21, 2016

The new “Voices of Pearl Harbor” tour uses a folksier approach, with acoustic guitar and ukulele music playing in the background as Bruner talks about the waterfront and Waikiki, circa 1941.

From Washington Times Dec. 20, 2015

It was always sixties music too—I recognized the Beatles and some of the folksier stuff you hear on the classic rock stations.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

Spirit Lake is distended by a cast of more than four dozen major characters cursed with total recall and the folksiest dialect since Mr. Dooley.

From Time Magazine Archive

With studied informality, the Donner Trail Ranch manages to be both the fanciest and the folksiest in the Reno area.

From Time Magazine Archive




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